REPTILE

rep'-til, -til: Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) in Micah 7:17 has reptilis for zohale, "crawling things," the American Standard Revised Version "worms of the earth," the King James Version margin "creeping things."

See LEVIATHAN ; LIZARD ; SERPENT ; TORTOISE .

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.